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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Calling Coleridge

Time to introduce another councillor for inspection....

Step up Councillor Tim Coleridge. Tim is an all round good egg.
Noted for opposing the abomination that was Danny Boys Moylan's
hideous plan for Sloane Square...Pooter delayed
his mayoralty for a year, as punishment.

Local stakeholders would largely agree that Councillor Coleridge has acted in a thoroughly decent way with regards listening and responding to the needs of the Lancaster West community. He deserves much credit for doing so.

Local stakeholders would largely agree that Councillor Coleridge has acted in a thoroughly decent way with regards listening and responding to the needs of the Lancaster West community. He deserves much credit for doing so.

That is probably one of his weaknesses, Anon 20:49. He is a very pleasant person and a real gentleman (unlike we all know who)but not great at taking guidance and not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

But unlike our friend he would not stay on well past his sell by date just beacause he needs the money, because of course he does not need the money. But the question remains does he have the leadership skills and the intellectual capacity, probably not.

The Dame never intended her little 'series' as a means to assess who could replace Pootin.The question probably won't arise: Pootin has warned those circling him he will crush any attempt to fiddle with his timetable. How uncanny the likeness to Putin!Let's look at Tim C. A feature that distinguishes this Council is the aroma of corruption: nothing so extraordinary about that;it's the result of a Leader who refuses tolerate any criticism and uses money(SRAs) and jobs to protect his own position. These are not leadership skills: they are things quite different.What it leads to-and it has, is a 'succession vacuum.'So let us not write off Coleridge as Leader...The Dame suspects that when given responsibility he will acquit himself excellently and be a force that can bring rapprochment to a council divided and purposeless.

Dearest Dame. We love you and admire you for all you have done in the name of the Sacred Borough. We do not wish to cause you the slightest offence for you are greatly revered and respected. But may we suggest in admonishing us on speculating about the succession to our Blessed Leader you are being just a little sanctimonious. Our great Conservative Councillors as they sit in their member’s room calculating their special responsibility allowances, graciously bestowed upon them by Blessed Leader, talk about little else other than how Blessed Leader can be helped on his way to a better place, where all Blessed Leaders (or most of them) have gone before him.

Dear Dame, abandoning the silly language, something like 90 per cent of the Council and a lot of the senior officers just can’t wait for this to happen. You have to admire his thick skin even if you don’t admire anything else about him.

Dearest Dame. We love you and admire you for all you have done in the name of the Sacred Borough. We do not wish to cause you the slightest offence for you are greatly revered and respected. But may we suggest in admonishing us on speculating about the succession to our Blessed Leader you are being just a little sanctimonious. Our great Conservative Councillors as they sit in their member’s room calculating their special responsibility allowances, graciously bestowed upon them by Blessed Leader, talk about little else other than how Blessed Leader can be helped on his way to a better place, where all Blessed Leaders (or most of them) have gone before him.

Dear Dame, abandoning the silly language, something like 90 per cent of the Council and a lot of the senior officers just can’t wait for this to happen. You have to admire his thick skin even if you don’t admire anything else about him.

Tim Colleridge wants the job badly. And he has plenty of experience of the council and has served in several Cabinet posts. And he has lived in the Borough for many years.

He is also one of the few who "listens" to residents and has made his views known on at least one occasion (Sloane Square) when he did not tow the party line.

But no one seems to know what he stands for. Just one of those terribly nice blokes. This is not how Leaders are supposed to behave. And he never took a stand on anything as a Member of the Standards Committee - he just did his best (which was very good) to smooth feathers. The Standards arena is a great opportunity to be forthright and take a position about what is "right" Colleridge seems to be incapable of this. A fair weather person

The Leadership style of "nice guys" is to build a team, delegate and share the work. It's steady state stuff.

But officers have always found Tim difficult to work with. He gets muddled and is not clear in his directions. And the Mayor is supposed to share Mayoral duties with the Deputy Mayor. In his year as Mayor he hogged everything. The Deputy never got a look in.

The nuts and bolts don't seem to work. And "steady state" is not what Hornton Street needs. Its root and branch reform that is required.

Apart from Sloane Square, Tim has never, in his whole life, taken a stand against anything in public or in private. Very polished fellow but also very shallow. He would have been a great client relationship guy in his father's Lloyds Members Agent

There is one distant memory of Cllr Coleridge chairing a Council Meeting and telling the dreadful disgraced ex Cllr Phelps to shut up during one his bullying and rude outbursts against a fellow member (Cllr Moylan)

Friends were quite startled by the rare sight of a "Coleridge moment". Like a deeply paralyzed limb, very occasionally there is a twitch

Councillor Coleridge has actually taken time to try and understand some of the problems facing residents in the North of the Borough. Moylan, on the other hand, treats North Kensington and it's Labour Councillors and local residents with total contempt.

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